Imanol Garciandia

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Imanol Garciandia
Personal information
Full name Imanol Garciandia Alustiza
Born (1995-04-30) 30 April 1995 (age 29)
Urretxu, Spain
Nationality Spanish
Height 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in)
Playing position Right back
Club information
Current club Pick Szeged
Number 41
Youth career
YearsTeam
–2012
 SD Urola
2012–2015
 Sanlo EKT
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
2015–2020
 CB Ciudad de Logroño
2020–2021
 Pays d'Aix UC
2021–
 Pick Szeged
National team 1
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2018–
 Spain 66 (166)
Medal record
Olympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2024 Paris Team
World Championship
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 Poland/Sweden
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Oran Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Tarragona Team
1 National team caps and goals correct
as of 13 January 2025

Imanol Garciandia Alustiza [a] (born 30 April 1995) is a Spanish handball player who plays for Pick Szeged and the Spanish national team.

Contents

Club career

Garciandia learned to play handball at SD Urola, a sports club in the two municipalities of Urretxu and Zumarraga in the Basque Country. The left-hander joined first division club CB Ciudad de Logroño in 2015 via Sanlo EKT in Elgoibar, [1] with whom he finished runner-up in the Liga ASOBAL behind FC Barcelona in the 2015–16 season. In the Copa del Rey in 2016–17 and 2017–18, he and the team from the La Rioja region only lost in the final against Barca, as well as in the Copa ASOBAL 2015–16 and the Supercopa ASOBAL 2017–18. In the European Cup, he gained experience in the 2015–16 and 2016–17 EHF Champions League and in the 2017–18, 2018–19 and 2019–20 EHF Cup. For Ciudad de Logroño, the Garciandia scored 378 goals in 139 league games.

In the 2020–21 season, Garciandia played for the club Pays d'Aix in the French Starligue, where he scored 104 goals in 30 games. [2] In the 2021–22 season, Garciandia signed a contract with the Hungarian first division club Pick Szeged. [3] With Szeged, he won the Hungarian championship in 2022. In the 2021–22 EHF Champions League, the team reached the round of 16.

International career

Garciandia made his debut for the Spanish national team on 20 June 2018 against Poland. [4] At the subsequent 2018 Mediterranean Games in Tarragona, he won the bronze medal with the selection and the gold medal at the 2022 Mediterranean Games. He took part in a World Championship for the first time in January 2023 in Poland and Sweden. [5] He won the bronze medal with the Spanish selection at the 2023 World Championship.

By January 2023, Garciandia had played 47 international matches, in which he scored 120 goals. [4]

Honors

SC Pick Szeged

Notes

  1. ↑ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Garciandiaand the second or maternal family name is Alustiza.

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References

  1. ↑ "Imanol Garciandia ficha por el Naturhouse" [Imanol Garciandia signs for Naturhouse] (in Spanish). Marca. 24 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "Joueurs: Imanol Garciandia A." [Players: Imanol Garciandia A.]. lnh.fr (in French). Retrieved 25 June 2022.
  3. ↑ "Spanischer Nationalspieler verlängert bei ungarischem Top-Klub" [Spanish international extends contract with Hungarian top club]. handball-world.news (in German). Retrieved 25 June 2022.
  4. 1 2 "IMANOL GARCIANDIA ALUSTIZA". rfebm.com (in Spanish).
  5. ↑ "Los ocho debutantes de España serán nueve" [The eight debutants from Spain will be nine]. as.com (in Spanish). 15 January 2023. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
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